The German decathlete just ran the 1500 m in 4:10 which is pretty phenomenal for a big guy. He won the title.
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That was a great finale.
Also, it's not over yet but it looks like Ehammer's long jump from the decathlon would get him silver behind Tentoglou's monster 8.52
Three men tied at 8.06 in the LJ right now
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Ghost1 wrote:
The German decathlete just ran the 1500 m in 4:10 which is pretty phenomenal for a big guy. He won the title.
That was really impressive by Niklas Kaul. Needed to beat Ehammer by 27 seconds to win the gold and went out and soloed a 3-second pb of 4:10. Ehammer was last in 4:48.
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fatsos wrote:
Ghost1 wrote:
Hugo Hay, The Frenchman was absolutely furious because he alleged that he was pushed intentionally by the Spanish athlete, Katir, and that it impeded him from achieving his goal, falling in the process on the penultimate lap and then never getting back to where he wanted to be. Personally, I think it is sour grapes by the Frenchman because I did not see any intentional harm from the Spaniard. To my mind, it was certainly not an intentional foul.
Absolutely was an intentional gesture. He did not mean to make him fall, but he did intend to push him over.
Hopefully Katir will be disqualified. Did you notice at the end he was glaring at Jakob with pure hate and pounding his fists on the track? That looked like roid rage to me.
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Why is Ehammer doing Decathlon
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a bit of a random question but do decathletes train 1500 that much, or at all? seems like most of them are sprinter types – which is of course natural as most events favor "fast twitch guys"
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Adel Mechaal really got old FAST. 3:30 last year in Olympics, a 7:30.8 3K in February. Now non-competitive in European competition. Bizarrely abrupt fall to irrelevance.
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THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Adel Mechaal really got old FAST. 3:30 last year in Olympics, a 7:30.8 3K in February. Now non-competitive in European competition. Bizarrely abrupt fall to irrelevance.
Bad peaking
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Peas And Carrots 2 wrote:
fatsos wrote:
Absolutely was an intentional gesture. He did not mean to make him fall, but he did intend to push him over.
Hopefully Katir will be disqualified. Did you notice at the end he was glaring at Jakob with pure hate and pounding his fists on the track? That looked like roid rage to me.
I never saw this happen - all I saw was the French guy, Hay, run up to the Spaniard and protest about the fall and the Spaniard lifting up his arms in dismay and saying basically there was no intention - at least that is the body language message he gave.
The negative image of the Spaniard, Katir, I believe is really over the top because I don’t really think he’s a bad guy in any shape or form. In Spain he has the image of a low-key, meditative, Buddhist type of person who writes poetry - at least that is what I get from the Spanish press, which I read frequently. No one has a bad word to say about him in Spain and of course cynics will point out that they (the Spanish), are biased because he’s their medal hauler, but still, let’s keep things in perspective here.
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wejo wrote:
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Adel Mechaal really got old FAST. 3:30 last year in Olympics, a 7:30.8 3K in February. Now non-competitive in European competition. Bizarrely abrupt fall to irrelevance.
Bad peaking
Right like he ran 13:06 two months ago so there is that.
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Yeah he did OK at Spanish Champs (4th in 1500 ~ strong group, 2nd in 5,000), but it’s been very bad since then.
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THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Adel Mechaal really got old FAST. 3:30 last year in Olympics, a 7:30.8 3K in February. Now non-competitive in European competition. Bizarrely abrupt fall to irrelevance.
Mechaal elected domicile in Istanbul, Turkey, for the past few years which to me is a bizarre choice of venue because basically the Spaniard of Morrocan origin could train anywhere in the world. Having said that, his wife is Turkish and also an international runner for Turkey.
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Mechaal and a couple of other Spanish athletes came into indoors really, really sharp. That's just too long a season for them to maintain peak fitness.
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uu.uuu wrote:
Mechaal and a couple of other Spanish athletes came into indoors really, really sharp. That's just too long a season for them to maintain peak fitness.
Might have to go for two peaks. But I really respect runners picking "lesser" championships in a championship packed year as this year. F.ex for the american 1500 runners I would expect them go all in on some DL meets while the top competitors are busy peaking for worlds, EC, commonwealth games and might not even run in those meets. Got to hunt those easier fields in big meets, no shame in that.
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Gold for Jacobs! Happy for him after a tough year!
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
Ghost1 wrote:
The German decathlete just ran the 1500 m in 4:10 which is pretty phenomenal for a big guy. He won the title.
That was really impressive by Niklas Kaul. Needed to beat Ehammer by 27 seconds to win the gold and went out and soloed a 3-second pb of 4:10. Ehammer was last in 4:48.
Good to see an Irishman in the final of the hundred meters. Olatunde. That Slovakian sprinter, I think finished fourth very close to third place.
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Azu seems like one exciting character! Won the british championship but was not elected to come to WC, now overjoyed with bronze. Olatunde is also so incredibly happy with his 6th, because the new Irish record he set.
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It's amazong how bad Europe is at sprints. Someof these guys would be luck to make the NCAA final.
It took 10.18 into a headwind to make the NCAA final but the final guy Boling has a sub-10 pb.
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